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The stresses caused by rapid urbanization in the Greater Seattle area have reignited the importance for neighborhood associations, citizens, health and human service providers, parks and recreation, and the local government ...

The practices of historic preservation have long been highly influenced by the UNESCO's international guidelines that classify the significance of local living heritage into tangible and intangible categories. This approach ...

The border-towns of El Paso, Texas and Juarez, Chihuahua are a place of deep trans-border cultures and home to 2.1 million people ("Demographic Data for El Paso"). Many of the residents of this bi-national metropolitan ...

Google Street View (GSV) presents the public realm as `fact', mapped and documented, and reconstituted online. In deleuzoguattarian terms, GSV is a unique assemblage, a bloc of space-time, with three distinct lines of force ...

Abstract THE USE OF PATIENT CAPITAL TO PROMOTE REAL ESTATE DEVELOPMENT IN WALKABLE COMMUNITIES By Francisco Traverso, 2014, 80 pages Chair of the Thesis Supervisory Committee: Jan Whittington As expressed by several authors, ...

A transformative youth program is an approach to youth development that is focused on engaging youth in understanding and changing unjust conditions in their lives, thereby transforming themselves and the communities in ...

Matthew Nowicki (1910-1950) developed an approach to architecture that negotiated the architectural and engineering fields through his use of expressive structural forms. As more than an optimized materialist exploration, ...

Drawing upon the massive redevelopment catalyzed by the government-led urban renewal in Hong Kong in the past two decades, this research pays attention to how biased normalization of care and dependency contributes to a ...

There are not adequate human factors research studies available that examine luminance-based measures as they relate to human visual preference and acceptance in spaces with daylight. The objective of this research is to ...

This dissertation examines the long neglected archaeological and ethnographic museums in the provinces of Turkey that were built between early 1960s and early 1980s, with respect to the troublesome relationship of the ...

Since China initiated its pro-market reform in 1978, the way Chinese cities are governed has undergone a profound change. Central to such change is the fundamental revival of urban land as economic assets, because of which ...

Around the world many river cities are challenged simultaneously by heightened flood risk and degraded river health. The prevailing approach to flood hazard mitigation--flood control, has been criticized to be ineffective ...

In order to conceptualize an architectural design, one
must consider lighting and perception. Humans are
visual creatures; the main perception of an architectural
space is heavily influenced by light. Light defines ...

My research responds to calls from both practitioners and theorists to broaden the approaches for identifying and addressing the problems inherent within urban streams and rivers by utilizing a narrative-based, case study ...